[Giddyupgo]

Wow...thanks for posting this. I remember going to the movies and Woolworth’s was across the street. We’d go there for a cherry coke and fries.

[mylife]

Now I have a serious hankering for an Isaly's BBQ chipped chopped ham sangwich.

[BigCinBigD]

There was a Woolworth’s in Big Town mall in Mesquite. I spent many a happy moment at their counter as a kid.

[expatguy]

Oh... I remember very well mowing lawns for $3 and $5 dollars for a corner lot.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[PieterCasparzen]

Ben Franklin in Pompton Lakes, NJ, used to have a lunch counter. Well, before the fire.

[paulycy]

Cool menu!

[Huck]

Meanwhile people scream and howl as if inflation is something new.

[Daisyjane69]

Fair warning:

If anyone wants the recipe for the tuna salad recipe that they used to sell at the Kresge lunch counter, FReepmail me.

Something tells me this is going to become a “all food all the time” thread.

If anyone knows the Kenny King’s onion ring recipe, holler! My sister and I have been looking for it for 20 years.

[AppyPappy]

When I was growing up, we went to the most famous Woolworth’s in the world. My kids read about it in school.

[aruanan]

I also recall when prices were in this vicinity, too... back when a dollar was a dollar:

And hourly wages were about that or less. I remember making about $1.55/hour in 1971. So the average price of a Woolworth sandwich was somewhere around 40 cents. This means for a dollar/hour, you could get two and a half sandwiches, taxes not included. Now at a federal mininum wage of $7.25, you can get about 7 McDouble or McChicken sandwiches and you can do it at more locations than you ever could in 1957 and, unlike most restaurants in 1957, in many locations 24 hours/day.

[COBOL2Java]

I grew up in Ridgewood, NY (right on the border between Brooklyn and Queens). The “main street” in our neighborhood was Myrtle Avenue, and there was a Woolworth’s and an S.S. Kresge right next to each other; we called them the “five and ten” (”Mom I’m going to the five and ten.” “Which one?” “Kresge’s.” “OK, but be home for dinner!”). The Woolworth’s had a better diner, as I recall.

[Dumpster Baby]

Oh, I remember the fantastic glass candy counter islands and the periodic “bong bong” signals to the staff.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I look back on Woolworth’s with nostalgia.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Each silver dime today is worth $2.85-2.90. So 30 cents is now over $8.50; 50 cents over $14; and 60 cents over $17.

[JoeProBono]

[Nip]

I can remember when MacDonald's add said you could buy a hamburger, fries and a coke and still get change back from your dollar. If I remember correctly the change was a quarter when you ordered a cheeseburger, slightly more if you ordered a plain hamburger.

BTW, if you do a comparative study you will discover the ratio of prices between various items haven't changed - just the inflation charged by the government critters at all levels.

[Travis McGee]

You can still buy that menu with the same amount of silver as in 1957.

Back when our “change” was real silver, and not silver-painted slugs.

[USS Alaska]

There was nobody around, so I kept it... a lot of money to a kid who mowed lawns for like $3 apiece.

If you, like, mowed lawns for, like, $3 during the sixties, you like, were moving lawns, in, like, Hollywood, because like in the sixties, the minimum wage was, like .90/hour.

I really like the word like it's, like so, like descriptive, know what I mean?

[RandallFlagg]

Another ad from 1957:

Those were the days...

[Joe 6-pack]

The memories that brings back :-) I grew up in the 70's and 80's in Indiana, PA - the hometown of Jimmy Stewart. We had a Woolworth's with a lunch counter; it was the only place in town that carried the Bachmann and Ertl metal toy airplanes and I spent a lot of my defense dollars there, building up my airforce.

In a lot of ways, it was like the last clinging vestiges of a Norman Rockwell world...